Moral Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Systems of morals are only a sign-language of the emotions.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The reason adultery is immoral is that it might lead to marriage.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Whether we immoralists do any harm to virtue?-Just as little as anarchists do to princes. It is only because they have been…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Noble and wise men once believed in the music of the spheres: noble and wise men still continue to believe in the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Astrology presupposes that the heavenly bodies are regulated in their movements in harmony with the destiny of mortals: the moral man presupposes…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It has therewith come to be recognized that the history of moral valuations is at the same time the history of an…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

This is the crux of the moral pessimists: if they really wanted to promote their neighbor's redemption, then they would have to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Their usual mistaken premise is that they affirm some consensus among people, at least among tame peoples, concerning certain moral principles, and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Socrates.- If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There is a great ladder of religious cruelty, and, of its many rungs, three are the most important. People used to make…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Man demands truth and fulfills this demand in moral intercourse with other men; this is the basis of all social life. One…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What Europe owes to the Jews? - Many things, good and bad, and above all one thing of the nature both of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is an end with priests and gods, if man becomes scientific. Moral: science is the thing forbidden in itself - it…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any "God," or any "sinner," or any "Saviour" that "free…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The domestication (the culture) of man does not go deep--where it does go deep it at once becomes degeneration (type: the Christian).…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Do you suppose that sacrifice is the hallmark of moral action?--Just stop to consider whether sacrifice is not involved in every action…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Go through the moral demands...one by one and you will find that man could not live up to them; the intention is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

... hitherto we have been permitted to seek beauty only in the morally good - a fact which sufficiently accounts for our…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is, indeed, a fact that, in the midst of society and sociability every evil inclination has to place itself under such…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Morality makes stupid.- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful - but…

— Friedrich Nietzsche